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This week there has been a huge row again about a major UK clothing chain using child labour in India. I have a problem with this. It is not possible to judge the rest of the world by Western standards. In some countries childhood is a luxury...
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My name? Why? Its all there on the mandatory registration cards with the housing complex security.
I exist. I make life easy for you. If I take leave you may have to...
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Police say a boat rescuing people in a flooded area of northern India has capsized, killing 20 people.
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This is weird but trust me, you cant help falling in love with Rock On, the movie! I saw it last night and I’m still high on the songs! Everything is perfect,...
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By Ranjan KumarAmritnidhi,Delhi
“Hare Krishna,HareKrishna,Krishna,Krishna,Hare Hare
Hare Rama,Hare Rama,Rama,Rama,Hare,Hare Hare.”
Today is the 5234th birth...
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New Delhi,the capital of India, was recently reeling under fear from the Biker’s gang.The dreaded gang used to shot dead anyone who refused to part away with his...
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Uff!! Grandad can really get on my nerves yaar!!! Why does he have to embarrass me in front of my friends? Tell him to stay away from me please! Our neighbor’s...
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The IOA president Mr. Suresh Kalmadi was miffed when he went in a function at the Vice President’s held to felicitate our Bronze Heroes. As per the news shown on...
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Saved by the dozen, is how Mahela Jayawardene must see this game. It is rather ironical how a team that performs with panache till they wrap the series suddenly hit a...
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India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been hit by another crisis. A senior female officer, working as a Director in...
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Chennai born and IIM-A educated business stalwart Indra Nooyi of Pepsico has moved up to the third rank in this year’s list, from the fifth last year, to become...
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ICICI’s chief strategy and communications officer and vice-chairperson for insurance, securities and asset management Kalpana Morparia has joined JP Morgan as the...
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What do I think of when I think of Pakistan? I see the dusty mosques of Multan, the chaotic illegal markets in Peshawar where you can buy everything from a fake Rolex...
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In yesterday’s Times Of India the “Speaking Tree” section espouses the merits of knitting . In a US church they have something called the...
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South Africa suffered a major blow with Graeme Smith finally deciding his elbow had all done all it could. But the team now had to do without the skipper’s resources...
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20 Microns, a pioneer and leader in the micronised minerals proposes to enter the capital markets on September 8, 2008 with a public issue of 43,50,632 Equity shares of...
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South Africa stand in captain Jacques Kallis won the toss and decided to field in the third One-Day International against England at the Oval on Friday.
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Hardly anything more than an academic exercise, India look still like learners with the road ahead of them. But it is the Sri Lankans who still need to have their...
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An Indian doctor jailed in Australia last year in a bungled terrorism case has officially been cleared, Australian police said Friday.
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After watching the spectacular show of closing ceremony of Olympics 2008 I was made to realise few things.
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India’s economic growth slowed to 7.9 percent in the April-June quarter, down from 9.2 percent in the same period last year, amid a slump in manufacturing, the...
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Primark, a leading High Street clothing store of UK has recently striked off 3 South Indian companies of Tirupur, THE T-SHIRT CITY of Tamil Nadu alleging that the...
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Thursday June 12th, was a day to remember children in bondage of labour to earn an extra buck in a home or to feed their siblings. This is very common in the developing...
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While the country holds Olympics in 2008, real problems brought out with media help exposes the country’s vulnerability to meet equal economic development.
The...
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Despite laws prohibiting child labour, with overwhelming poverty in the country the Indian government appears to be helpless in eliminating child labour in the country....
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India has a dubious distinction of fostering the highest number of child labour in the world. The great challenge for a developing country like India is to provide...
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India has a 22-year-old law that prohibits child labour in the country but still several incidents of alleged child labour come to light on a regular basis from almost...
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Locked between India and China is a small but volatile country called Nepal, which is fast spiraling out of control. The Maoist rebels are dissatisfied that the nation...
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What would you have done, had your child being forced to sell his innocence for ‘Rs. 1 kilo of foam’? You can hardly even think of it right? But that is a...
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India is heading towards becoming a economic super power with its ever growing economy. Yesterday the sensex reached a new high of 14, 664 points. The PM and his...
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The recent media attention on Anti Child Labour Day as a ritual and event forces to reflect on the last years announcement by ministry of labour bringing in residential...
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Let us see all that the country has done to eradicate child labour.
The Indian Constitution has defined the right to free and compulsory education to all children...
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Ever since we became independent, we stood to fight against child labour. Even Article 24 of our Constitution prohibits employment of children under 14 years in...
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Today is Children’s day and today is the birth anniversary of Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru too.
Everyone knows that because...
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India is a home to 19 percent of world’s children. The country is a story of stark contrasts and striking disparities as illustrated in a study of 43 focal...
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This comes as a rather shocking piece of news to the elite class of Saudi community. Media is abuzz with the case of Hana Al Jader, wife of Saudi Prince Mohamed Bin...
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Only a few days back, the Indian government declared a ban on any form of child labor up to the age of 14 years, but many leading international child rights guardians...
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A recent research conducted by experts at Indian Centre for Development Economics states that India has to buckle up its fight against child labour, if it has to meet...
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For the first time in Chennai, a metropolitan city of India, a unique way of combating with child labour will be experimented, when motor sports freaks from all over...
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Some things can never be changed and child labour is one such issue, which never seems to end. Child labour is abundant in most of the third world...
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